Re: Can't Login without 2 hard drives present !?
- From: "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:55:28 -0700
This article may help.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q249321/
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"Joseph" wrote:
|I have a windows 2000 pc with ONE hard drive. That drive had 2
| partitions: C and D.
|
| I have a second hard drive that already had windows 2000 on it and 2
| partitions also.
| I did the stupid thing of adding that second hard drive to my PC. When
| I booted up the machine with both Hard drives(both with win200 on it)
| it ended up
| 1. changing my drive letters.
| 2. started looking for the pagefile on the 2nd hard drive
|
| Original hard drive had two partitions: C and D. Those ended up
| becoming F and D.
| Second hard drive had two partitions: F and G. Those ended up becoming
| C and G.
|
| Originally I couldn't login without an error telling me the pagefile
| was too small or didn't exist. I corrected that by booting in safe
| mode, logging in, and changing where the system looks for the pagefile
| [back onto F: (originally C)] It was also pointed correctly to F: in
| the registry.
|
| Now I'm able to login but my drive letters are still screwed up. F: is
| the system drive and won't allow me to change the letter back to C:.
|
| Even worse, I am only able to login when BOTH drives are connected.
| When I physically remove the second hard drive and boot up it will take
| me to the login screen but won't let me login. When I try logging in it
| kicks me back out to the login prompt with no error message. If I
| connect back the 2nd hard drive it logs in fine. I feel like I
| corrected the pagefile error (I see no more pagefile error message) but
| I don't know what Windows is looking for on the 2nd hard drive that is
| preventing it from logging in.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
| Joseph
|
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